US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, who is also facing deportation to Brazil.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a woman who shares an 11-year-old son with the brother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Levitt.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira was detained earlier this month in Revere, Massachusetts, and is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana, according to WBUR, which was the first to report the story. Sources confirmed that Michael Leavitt, the press secretary's brother, had a relationship with Ferreira and share a son.